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Article: General Communication to Lay Fiber-Optic Line from Alaska to Oregon.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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- July 1, 2003
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By Richard Richtmyer, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jul. 1--Anchorage-based General Communication Inc. on Monday announced plans to build a $50 million undersea fiber-optic cable connecting Seward with Warrenton, Ore., which will supplement its existing fiber line connecting Alaska with the Lower 48.
Initially, the new cable will be capable of carrying more than 258,000 simultaneous voice or data circuits at transmission speeds of 20 billion bits per second. As demand increases, the cable's capacity can be increased to support more than 8 million simultaneous circuits at speeds of 640 billion bits per second, ...